Film: Karthi’s Madras(film) Review – A gift to Indigenous Madras peoples for Madras 375

What is your expectation on “Madras” Movie?

The Director who gave a romantic comedy about the youth living in Suburban of Chennai, Pa Ranjith, Combined with Karthi whose current attempt to Comedy films failed. I had confusion about the genre, is it going to be Comedy or action.

Pa Ranjith Interviews and first look of the movie conveyed the message that the movie is going to be about North Chennai. My fear sky rocketed, Another Don Movie? After the worst experience of watching recent don movies like Thalaiva or Anjaan, What if it is another Don movie with all fake heroism with silly screenplay?

Pa Ranjith Saved, He choose to be different, really he chose different subject. I was very much depressed of portraying the suburban youth as mere comics in his film Atta Kathi. This time He elevated his carrier with nice Plot.

Kali (Karthi) who is living in North Chennai. He was active football player, and his dear friend Anbu was also active in local politics .The politics side triggers lot of fights over their area rivals. The Story is about acquiring the power, where the power was symbolized as a wall. In an attempt to challenge their rivals both Kalli and Anbu slips into life changing situation, the remaining story is about how they handle it?

The first songs have beautiful visuals about the daily life in north Chennai. They are the indigenous people to Chennai or madras, whereas playing key role in the cities development and thrown out from the city and seen as dirty.

We want thank Pa Ranjith who has some knowledge about politics took this story and presented as Blood and Flesh.

North Chennai is not only Fishing, smuggling, rivals, murder, Crowds, Murky,Housing boards, and Gana songs. It has millions of people who daily engage in development of this city and after squeezing their energy they have been spilled out by this city. They have Love, Life, Dreams, Hard work, and fun. In this film everything was recognized very well.

The Visual medium was well understood by the director. The accolades go to Cinematographer too. Often shown Long shot of the full area in day and night was capturing and making us to travel to north madras.

Santhosh Narayanan done his good job, Thanks the whole movie was not filled with only Gana songs. Enough space was given to music director. The Casting part was excellent except heroin. Karthi fitted well to the story. He underplays whenever needed and presents his acting skill in required shots. It’s an action movie to but the individual heroism was presented in a way it can be accepted and it was not irritating.

Other casts like the actor who played the Friend character Anbu, and Ritwika ( Paradesi fame), The supporting artsiest including villain role was excellent selection. The misjudgment happened while casting Heroin, Katherin Therasa done her role satisfyingly. Still her appearance was not matching the environment. Her duping voice was excellent choice but that was not suiting to her.

The Carelessness or “for-commercial” attitude continuing in Dialogs and costumes department. The dialogs were arbitrating between normal Tamil slang and North Chennai colloquial slang. It was relay disturbing us, When Location, Visuals taking us to North madras soil, The dialogs and costumes kept on reminding us that it was a movie that too a commercial movie.

We need to mention one character John who specifically delivers dialogs with raw Chennai flavor and impress audience with his acting. Though the screen play is lackluster, Director manipulated the audience with the cliché’s and giving twists that he used the cliché to cheat us which is dazzling work.

The director has a background of political working in a party. He adds some message encapsulates in a mass action commercial movie. I felt audience amazing in interval block and at the end of the movie and they are satisfied with what Pa Ranjith served to them. A perfect masala of Action, Music, Comedy. I am not sure that audience will get the Message encapsulated.

This movie is one more milestone in Karthi’s Carrier. First It will give him energy and can help him to forget his last two failures. Second, after Paruthiveeran, karthi was giving the same performance, in his earlier movies at least in one scene and utmost in the movies you can see Parutheeveeran modulation or style. In this movie Karthi wiped out the reoccurring Paruthiveeran style and delivered his landmark performance.

This movie was released in right time whereas The Movie crew gave a very good gift to indigenous Madras peoples on the occasion of Chennai 375 celebration.